Vimeo mirror of the audio recording: https://vimeo.com/783521957

these are the clowns running the circus. they have no clue

elon: "we need to rewrite everything in this crazy stack."

guy: "what exactly is so 'crazy' about the twitter stack that necessitates a complete rewrite?"

elon: "goodbye. what a moron."

https://nitter.net/pwnsdx/status/1605442608603463680#m

"Listening to this Twitter Spaces where Elon is talking about the tech stack and it's clear that no one has been in a position to actually ask him a follow up question in years. He thinks he knows everything and simply will not abide someone contradicting that notion.

Right after I sent this he demanded someone be cut off because he was pointing out correctly how ads work on the internet. Literally just said "cut him off"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605441730760675330.html

https://nitter.net/goldman/status/1605441730760675330#m

Pretty funny thread in which OP backpedals for 12 hours. Hotz is a transparent clout goblin who couldn't hack it as an engineer, very sad!

https://nitter.net/GergelyOrosz/status/1605455595640864773#m

Who wants to bet that "weird political defenses" were things like "that's a legal requirement in X countries".

Can't imagine why they wouldn't be excited about changing around everything after losing like 90% of their workforce that's actually capable of implementing large changes, and no desire to take on a FUCKING GIANT workload when there's basically nobody left with the knowledge to fix shit when Elon's rushed changes and demands inevitably cause shit to catch fire.

elon: I think frankly if we're gonna have a really high velocity of features I uh uh think we need to do just a total rewrite of the whole thing. You know, um

idg (former twitter dev): Wait, seriously, a total rewrite, that's your prediction for velocity?

elon: Yeah.

idg: Well, when you say a total rewrite, do you mean starting with a skeleton, or a bunch of engineers sit down with a whiteboard and say "what is twitter?"

elon: Uh, <silence>

idg: Revolution or reform?

elon: I mean I mean literally like you could either try to amend the crazy stack that exists, or rewrite it.

idg: When you say crazy stack, what do you mean? Like, break it down.

elon: <silence> Have you seen George's, like, diagram?

idg: no no I mean like what do you mean by crazy?

Elon: <interrupts with gibberish>

idg: C'mon bud, c'mon

elon: Who are you?

idg: What do you mean who am I? I dunno, you gave me the fuckin' mic.

<crosstalk over mic bullshit>

idg: Like no no you're in charge of the servers and programing, whatever. Like what is the stack, Elon? C'mon man, take me from top to bottom. What does the stack look like right now? What's so crazy about it? What's so abnormal about this stack versus every other large scale system on the planet, buddy? C'mon.

elon: Amazing. Wow, you're a jackass.

geohotz: Ok ok let's keep this civil, we've removed him from speakers.

elon: good. What a moron."

lol what a thin skin dumbass

whoever called the "he's a very special boy, top of his class, and you're not respecting HOW SPECIAL he is" come claim your prize

"you want me to work with others?!? what the fuck is wrong with you, you should just be keeping them out of my way!!!"

So when boywonder says "political" he means organizational. Y'know. "Who has the capacity and familiarity to get shifted to the new task? Do we bring in new folks?"

This dude's a dipshit.

it's almost like people who can't work with others have a vested interest in perpetuating the "brilliant jerk" myth